Hamishs Mountain Quotes & Sayings

If a plague carried off the members of a society all at once, it is obvious that the group would be permanently done for. Yet the death of each of its constituent members is as certain as if an epidemic took them all at once. But the graded difference in age, the fact that some are born as some die, makes possible through transmission of ideas and practices the constant reweaving of the social fabric. Yet this renewal is not automatic. Unless pains are taken to see that genuine and thorough transmission takes place, the most civilized group will relapse into barbarism and then into savagery. — John Dewey

The battle is not to the strong alone. It is to the vigilant, the active, and the brave. A small, disciplined militia can not only hold out against a larger force, but drive it back, because what they're fighting for rightfully belongs to them. — Patrick Henry

That faith which is required of us is then perfect when it produces in us a fiduciary assent to whatever the Gospel has revealed. — William Wake

So, in the last year, the whole cast sued for release from our contracts. — Tommy Rettig

I love researching all sorts of weird stuff. I always say, 'God help me if the FBI came across my Internet search history.' — Simon Toyne

I'm not a huge fan of eye shadow. You spend 20 minutes working on it and then make one mistake and have to remove it all! I'd rather play up my eyes with winged eyeliner. — Bethany Mota

This is why I have always said that it would be better if Muslims were poor. — Abu Bakar Bashir

Be very generous with the resources they need to do their work. Be stingy with the stuff that doesn't matter, like fancy furniture and big offices, but invest in the stuff that does. — Eric Schmidt

There are more scriptural reasons to oppose homophobia than to oppose homosexuality. — John B. Cobb

Either you don't know how to
do something or you choose not to do something. There is no CANT! — Marshall Sylver

Publishing, legacy or indie, is a vehicle, and you can't opine about whether someone has chosen the right vehicle if you don't know where she intends to drive it. — Barry Eisler

I don't move. I wait behind my log, terrified. Over the past ten minutes, it's become such a dear friend, I consider naming it: Howard, my pet log. — Rick Yancey

it feels so scary getting old. — Lorde